Jennifer Aniston is Going to Prison for Goree Girls

Celebrity Spotlight

Cherie Bowser
Jennifer Aniston will be going to prison and staring in the true story of an all-female country band that back in the 1940's in a Texas prison according to Variety. The film will begin production in January of 2010. The film is based on the O Sister, Where Art Thou? by Skip Hollandsworth from the 2003 Texas Monthly. It is about eight inmates in the Goree prison unit that formed one of the first all-female country and western acts in the country, and they nearly all vanished forever. You can read the entire story here:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/2003-05-01/feature.php

Jennifer Aniston is also playing the role of Eloise in a film titled Love Happens that will be released on September 18, 2009. Also starring in the film is Aaron Eckhart, Judy Greer, Martin Sheen, and Sasha Alexander. The film is about a widower who turns into a best-selling self-help guru and one a business trip; he falls for a woman (Jenifer Aniston) who attended one of his seminars. He learns that he still has to deal with his wife's passing. You can get more information on this movie and watch the trailer of the film here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0899106/

She also has another film that is in Post-production and will be playing the role of Kassie in the The Baster. This film will be released sometime in 2010. Also starring in the film is Patrick Wilson, Jason Bateman, Juliette Lewis, and Jeff Goldblum. A trailer hasn't been put out yet, but you can find more information at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0889573/

While the film The Baster is in Post Production, she is currently filing and playing the role of Casidy in The Bounty that will be released sometime in 2010. Also starring in the film is Gerard Butler, Christine Baranski, and Siobhan Fallon. There have been some rumors about Gerard Butler dating Jenifer Aniston. According to the WENN, the Scottish actor dismissed reports that he is dating Aniston after they were spoted arm-in-arm on a romantic stroll on a Los Angeles beach and he insist that their relationship is purely professional, yet admits that he has fantasized with her while they were filming the new movie.

Jennifer Aniston has just won an iParenting Media Award for the children's book and CD titled Loukoumi's Good Deeds, which she narrated along with John Aniston according to Entertainment tonight. You can purchase the book and CD at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Loukoumis-Deeds-Narrated-Jennifer-Aniston/dp/0970510098.

Another film that she will be staring in a CBS Romantic Comedy film, Pumas according the Varity. The film is about two woman who are in their thirties who make a habit of romancing younger men.

A little more about Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks, California to a Italian-Scottish descent mother, Nancy Dow who is an actress and a Green American father, John Aniston who is an actor. She lived in Greece for one year as a child and then grew up in New York City. According to HelloMagazine, her parents divorced in 1980 and Jennifer lived mainly with her mother.

She began her acting in 1989 when she moved to Los Angeles, California. Many people know Jennifer Aniston as Rachel on the television show Friends, or as Brad Pitt's ex-wife. Besides the televisions hit show Friends from 1994 until 2004, she was also in the sitcom Ferris Bueller that debuted in 1990, but was canceled within its first season. Jennifer Aniston was also in an American sketch comedy television series titled, The Edge that was on the Fox television network from 1992 to 1993. She appeared in a her first television movie titled Camp Cucamonga in 1990 and made her first feature film debut in Leprechaun in 1993.

Jennifer Aniston has won many awards for her television show Friends, which were a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1996, a Prime time Emmy Award in 2002, a Golden Globe Award in 2003, a Logie Award in 2004. She has also won three Teen Choice Awards for The Good Girl in 2002, Bruce Almighty in 2003, and The Break-up in 2006 as well as winning a People's Choice Award for the Break-up.

She has had many guest appearances on several shows. Here is a list of show that she has appeared on a guest.

1990
Malloy
2 episodes

1992
Quantum Leap
"Nowhere to Run" (Season 5, Episode 4)

1992 - 1993
Herman's Head
"Twisted Sister" (Season 1, Episode 25)
"Jay Is for Jealousy" (Season 3, Episode 8)

1994
Burke's Law
"Who Killed the Beauty Queen?" (Season 1, Episode 4)

Muddling Through
1 episode

1996
Partners
"Follow the Clams?" (Season 1, Episode 17)

1998
Disney's Hercules
"Dream Date" (Season 1, Episode 27) - Voice Only

1999
South Park
"Rainforest Schmainforest" (Season 3, Episode 1)

2003
Freedom: A History of Us
"Wake Up America " (Season 1, Episode 4)

King of the Hill
"Queasy Rider" (Season 7, Episode 13)

2007
Dirt
"Ita Missa Est " (Season 1, Episode 13)

2008
30 Rock
"The One With the Cast of Night Court" (Season 3, Episode 3)

Since 1990 she has been in many films. Here is a list of them in case you missed them in the theater along with the trailers.

1990
Camp Cucamonga (TV Movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099212/

1993
Leprechaun (First Feature Film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107387/

1996
She's the One
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117628/

Dream for an Insomniac
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116141/

1997
Picture Perfect
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119896/

'Til There was You
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118523/

1998
The Object of My Affection
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120772/

1999
The Iron Giant (voice only)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129167/

Office Space
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

2001
Rock Star
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202470/

2002
The Good Girl
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279113/

2003
Bruce Almighty
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315327/

2004
Along Came Polly
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343135/

2005
Rumor Has It...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398375/

Derailed
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398017/

2006
The Break-Up
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452594/

Friends with Money
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436331/

Room 10 (short film, Co-Director Only)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0867415/

Trailer for Room 10
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-16724447/reel_moments_room_10/

2008
Marley & Me
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822832/

2009
He's Just Not That Into You
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1001508/

Management
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1082853/

Sources and Resources:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/jenniferaniston/

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biography/artist/jennifer-aniston/biography/48

http://www.people.com/people/brad_pitt/biography/0,,20004328_10,00.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Bueller_%28TV_series%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_%28FOX_TV_series%29

http://www.imdb.com/news/ns0000002/

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006662.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

http://www.answers.com/topic/jennifer-aniston

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Aniston

Published by Cherie Bowser

I am a single mother of three girls ages 5, 10, and 14. I am currently a full-time caretaker for a patient with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). I love taking care of my children as well as being a care taker f...   View profile

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  • Suzanne Bennett 8/15/2009

    The film about the prison band sounds very interesting. I will watch for it! :)

  • Reena Das 8/13/2009

    Love Jennifer Anniston :)

  • Tink 8/13/2009

    Can't picture Aniston in prison, but this sounds interesting. Nice job on the article.

  • Jenny Powers 8/12/2009

    Hmm, interesting.

  • Tina Twito 8/12/2009

    Sounds like a good one to watch!

  • Writestuff444 8/11/2009

    Sounds like a movie to see. and I'm actually a jennifer fan. I think she's a great actresses that has never had a super role to play, just fluff!

  • Meg C. 8/11/2009

    It would be a good movie

  • Langley Cornwell 8/11/2009

    This does sound like a good movie.

  • Thomas Lane 8/11/2009

    A very thorough job. That prison movie sounds interesting.

  • Judy Elizabeth 8/11/2009

    I have to agree somewhat with Sondra. Her movies always look good, but when it's over, I am almost always dissapointed. All the good parts are used up in the trailer.

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